Little Jumper Chapter 25

A new one, shorter interval than last time, rejoice!
Interesting chapter, much better than the last two.

Some want to become a pilot, others an astronaut. He wants to become a train.

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Allow me to bore you with some text.
Although I’m not too well versed in the sci-fi genre (Asimov, one day I’ll read your books) I do happen to be a fervent fan of Douglas Adams’ Hitch-hiker series. While these books introduce many interesting concepts on politics, philosophy and even statistics, I’ll talk about his concept of the problems associated with time travel. (It has to have some relation to the manga at hand, after all) A famous quote in the books (altered and very shortened):

The major problem with time travel is simply one of grammar.

What he’s trying to say is that grammar is not really a problem, but that there’s no real problem at all. Time will somehow fit, like a jigsaw puzzle and you can even become your own father. Now, disregarding the biological complications of such activities, pulling that idea to this manga universe, it is not inconceivable that Hiroki ends up being the father and husband of his daughter. Paradox? Not at all. Time paradoxes don’t exist in this idea. In fact, it can’t even be called incest because the Hiroki who fathered her is technically not the Hiroki who might marry her, simply two different Hirokis who ended up on the same time axis (Well again, if you look at the coefficient of relationship, it would be considered incest, no matter how you slice the cake, ’cause she still is his daughter). Keep in mind that this time travel idea is based on a fixed loop in a single word Little Jumper might actually follow something similar to this idea, and it would declare several strange phenomena (one of which you can read about in the current chapter), but I think the author is aiming for a parallel timeline explanation. I’ll stop my strange bantering here…

Enjoy the chapter!